Quick Links for Today:
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"The Oakland Real Estate Co. is remodeling the King’s Court building at 3805 Forbes Ave. for use by new businesses…[C]lothing retailer American Apparel is a prospective tenant"
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"With its underaged, porn-like amateur models, America Apparel makes Abercrombie and Fitch seem like a G rated Disney movie. Since its inception, the ‘sweatshop-free’ apparel designer has used nubile young girls with pouting faces, come-hither looks and ‘
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"[A]s in all matters, sometimes people fall into extremes. At one extreme are those who are painfully scrupulous…At the other extreme are those who are awfully general."
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"The 2008 presidential election will likely be determined by five cluster superstates.Political strategists, consultants and candidates might want to take note because the conventional model of red and blues states is very old news."
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"If Church members really believe that no force is powerful enough to destroy the Church (and since their scriptures say that, members of the Church should probably believe it), then they should consider the litigation as a purifying fire. Sit back, relax
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"Electronic road signs are annoying….Being a creative tinkerer, I decided to do something about it."
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"Reformed philosopher Alvin Plantinga reflects on the meaning of fundamentalism"
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"If you haven’t already heard about Share Your OPML, it’s quite a concept: It’s a site where people or sites share the address to their RSS feed, thus making it far easier to gather up new sites to add to your RSS reader of choice."
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"When spouses, friends, or co-workers forgive one another after a candid airing of grievances, they are mediating God’s mercy to each other. Why, then, is it so hard to accept that from a man ordained of God?"
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"Catholics have the Blessed Virgin Mother; hip materialists have Mother Oprah."
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"Here are a few examples of cars with inferior miles per gallon that will cost you a lot to run. Not surprisingly, they are almost all SUVs, except for the crossover Chrysler Pacifica."
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"One of my biggest pet peeves in Windows is the management of the taskbar. First, I should be able to reorder the items in the taskbar. Enter Taskbar Shuffle, which allows you to simply drag-and-drop the items as you see fit."
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"In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now…they’ve gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light trav
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"Your butt does more than fill out your jeans. Strong glutes can improve posture, ease back pain, and strengthen your stride."
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"Flexible, strong hamstrings are key to any yoga practice. But they’re often stubbornly tight. These five poses gently lengthen and strengthen them."
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"Savoy Ballroom dancers Al and Leon and members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers."
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"Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy, and their time."
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"Can a celibate clergy really give good advice to young adults about relationships and sexuality?"
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"Since reading Greg Critser’s Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, I’ve regarded high-fructose corn syrup as a kind of toxic waste, present in an unbelievable amount of processed/packaged food."
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"Looking at the tentative line-up for GodBlogCon06, it is hard to imagine that I will attend."
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"[My mother] has always had a problem with the Catholic Church, and especially with my being part of it. Here is part of what she said: ‘…I do not expect to see either you or your father in Heaven, where I know there is a place now ready for me…’"
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"While we may not agree with how women currently evaluate this issue, the importance of our mission and the imperative to be effective demand that we listen, that we understand, and that we respond to the actual concerns of women who are most likely to ch
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Wow, this is really classless
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"Whatever one thinks about the structure of the internet as a whole, it is becoming increasingly clear that the particular architecture of the blogosphere is the chief impediment to its becoming a place where new ideas can be deployed, tested, and develop
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"From the heart of our nation, Project Reality gives us yet more evidence that the supporters of ‘comprehensive’ sex education have no interest in entering into open-minded debate with those who oppose their agenda"
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This is, like, funny.
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"As LifeNews.com previously reported, Planned Parenthood, a supposedly nonprofit organization, brought in $882 million in FY 2004-2005 a whopping increase of 8.9 percent over the previous reporting period. The abortion business made $63 million in profit
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"I’ve got health and fitness on the brain because of a fitness challenge I’m hosting in my own stuff, so I was thinking about ways to get some more fitness into my cubicle-bound day job. Here’s what I’ve got."
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"Have you started a diet or exercise program only to fail after a few days. Your goal was lost among the daily activities of life. Your plans evaporated into that bowl of ice cream or bag of cookies. Your daily ritual took over and that latest diet book w
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"Laurence Thomas defends Dr. Laura on marital sex, particularly her encouragement to married women to be more willing to be coaxed into sex by their husbands. Laurence argues that seeking to satisfy their husbands’ desires is not merely giving in to selfi
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How does this stuff not mess with kids’ heads?
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"Almost certainly, the Bible is nearly as fictional as The Da Vinci Code."
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"EPIC has used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to seek information about the government’s use of USA PATRIOT Act authority since shortly after the law was passed by Congress in October 2001. EPIC has obtained USA PATRIOT Act-related documents throug
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"Fan films have been around for years, particularly those related to the "Star Wars" movies. But now they can be downloaded from the Web, and modern computer graphics technology has lent them surprising special effects. And as long as no one is profiting
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"If you are one of those Episcopalians who are now considering departing from the Episcopal Church, I urge you to please seriously consider—and I mean seriously—the claims of the Catholic Church."
Any particular reason why you’re still linking to something I wrote almost a month and a half ago, that received a good amount of discussion at the time?
Is there a statue of limitations on linking to blog posts? 😉
The simple reason is that it’s been open in a tab for ages. These quick links posts are created whenever I “clean house” in Firefox and that post was one of the tabs I finally closed.
No, no trouble. Just thought it was weird, especially since I’ve written so other, more provocative things since then. 😉
For example, this one:
Or this one: